WI:The Great Game heats up

What if the Crimean war became a multi-front war waged between Britain and Russia fought not just in the Crimea but throughout Asia to? Who's most likely to win and how decisive would it be? How would it change the power balance and alliances of Europe.
 
What if the Crimean war became a multi-front war waged between Britain and Russia fought not just in the Crimea but throughout Asia to? Who's most likely to win and how decisive would it be? How would it change the power balance and alliances of Europe.

I am not sure either side can touch each other in Central Asia... and that's before logistics are even considered...
 
The Pacific becomes a battlefront of sorts. The Australasian colonies were deeply worried about Russian naval bombardment, as almost all of their principal settlements were on the coast and shipping- coastal and long distance were extremely important. Especially given rail and road infrastructure wasn't particularly developed
 
Wasn't there some minor action in the Baltic and the Far East IOTL?

The Pacific becomes a battlefront of sorts. The Australasian colonies were deeply worried about Russian naval bombardment

Indeed, there were a couple forts built in Adelaide (which you'd think would be the most geographically secure of the capital cities) in the 1870s/1880s for fear of Russian naval attacks.
 

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Maybe you'll wind up with Afghanistan being partitioned. 1 half going to British India, the other going to Russia.
 
Wasn't there some minor action in the Baltic and the Far East IOTL?



Indeed, there were a couple forts built in Adelaide (which you'd think would be the most geographically secure of the capital cities) in the 1870s/1880s for fear of Russian naval attacks.

Hell my home town which had never had more than about 13,000 still has the cannon and emplacements. They never updated it for WW1/2 unlike the other ones
 
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